Day 24

Gaudi building

We took an alternative route to our trusted Michelin guide today in order to avoid walking alongside a busy main road. So we are slightly off camino in Vilar de Mazarife. We took John Brierley's advice and it was a quieter route with less pilgrims. Fantastic wild flowers and manageable enough distance to really enjoy the walk.

Despite taking the road less travelled, we none the less still seem to have met up with lots if previous aquaintances. This is what is so bizarre and so special about this trip. Mo and I chose the Albergue with smaller rooms, less mod cons and more character and it has paid off. It is small scale but great ambience.

We met up with Bernt and his mate from Sweden and Kirsten from Sweden who loves Leonard Cohen and an Australian couple and Ruth from New Zealand is sharing our room. How did that happen? We all had aperitif together. Then we had dinner with new friends from Germany and Celine from France. What's nice about this place is that it is also full of ordinary Spanish people too so we are not in a camino ghetto.